Why Christians Shouldn't Celebrate Christmas (Sermon) - Pagan Origin of Christmas

I totally agree I stop it alone time ago; but I think Jesus was conceived in December but He was not born in December

Gnat straining at it's best

Too many naysayers want to distract from the Birth of Christ and focus instead
on pagan elements as an excuse. But can these same people even tell you the way to have your sins forgiven? Doesn't seem to be very easy for them to tell you about the importance of the Virgin Birth of Christ Jesus either. // Jesus made atonement for our sins. He died and rose again. Invite Jesus to live in your heart. It is Christ in you the hope of glory. (Ref. please read Matthew 1:21; John; Acts 1-4; Romans 5-10; 1 Corinthians 15; 2 Corinthians 13:5; 1 Thessalonians and Revelations in the Bible).

"Virgin Birth of Jesus"
by Kathreen Margaret
The Virgin Birth of Jesus is a very important Biblical teaching.
The Holy Spirit hovered over Mary and she conceived Jesus in her womb. Jesus did not have a natural father like we do.
But instead, the Holy Spirit was the Spiritual Father.
Therefore, Jesus was not tainted with the sin of Adam as we are.
The blood does not come from the mother; but comes from
the father, and in this case the Blood came from the Holy Spirit.

Mary was the willing and obedient vessel for God to use.
An example that we all should follow.

1. Pagan Feasts, Cultural, Carnal And Commercial Interests Usually Seek To Clash With And Contaminate Christmas Celebrations
There are recent conjectures, speculating that December 25th was chosen to clash with or replace the ancient Roman Saturnalia (17th December) and much later celebration of the birth of the Persian Sun-god Mithra (25th December) which was introduced by Emperor Aurelian about 271 AD. This anti-Christmas conjecture is like claiming that since many Gospel musicians have gone wild and worldly, Church hymnody and Gospel music originated from pagan music and was introduced to clash with or replace pagan music, after all we do not have any biblical record of a Gospel musician in the Apostolic Church. In the antichristian culture of our days, it is not any wonder that people (even Christians) tend to give more credence to spurious speculations and street fables of the heathens than they would give to sanctuary teachings and scriptural testimonies of the Church. Claims that pagan religions celebrated festivities on 25th December in Rome before the Church began Christ’s Nativity is falsehood based on ignorance about (or disregard of) historical facts and the basis for the development of the Church Calendar. Others ridiculously trace origin of Christmas to Yule log and fir tree decorations.

The truth is that in the 3rd and 4th century Rome, the rise of Sun worship and wild Mithra cultism began to confuse the hitherto quiet and solemn Nativity feast of the Church for a while in the same way end of year consumerist festivities do today, but the Church stood its ground with promulgation of several anti-heathenish sanctions and denunciations to rescue its Christmas from the Sun cult and wild heathenish cultural interference till the pagan feasts fell into disuse, as we are trying to do today. Unfortunately, Gentiles will always corrupt with the debauchery of their pagan culture, any divine matter brought to them even till today. I hope anti-Christmas critics and theorists will not soon trace the origin of Christmas to the Santa or the greeting cards, crackers, buntings and lightings which are confusing distractions and interferences but not even part of the Church’s Christmas worship programme!

2. Merry Christmas!
Royalties are celebrated annually by their subjects. Though Christ’s Incarnation and Crucifixion must remain daily mention and meditation in the Church’s teaching and life, yet special public commemoration of these Great Saving Works by evangelistic proclamation in a festal holiday programme as the Angels did, is a step toward fulfilling the Great Commission. When Christ was born, His royalty was celebrated with solemn gladness by heaven and earth, great and small, Angels and stars, intellectuals and shepherds. As long as Christ reigns, He shall be celebrated and honoured continually by His Church because He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

You have the best info out there that does not dive into Judaistic worship. Thanks so much!

pretty good some small factual errors but the most honest video i have seen from a christian well done

Great video thanks for sharing. Every year I have to go through this with my family. We learned this 3 years ago. So we stopped celebrating Christmas. In that process I lost a lot of friends and Family. That's ok, the less that I'm of the world, the more I'm of the Sprit. I hope that everyone that watches this shares it with there Friends and Family. Take care and God Bless.

For shorter videos on Why Christians Shouldn't Celebrate Christmas, watch these: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLz_-YTcG9xqNUnXLcCTUjLyN-KGdwGak.

Thanx for putting this on youtube, everything of the celebrating christmas holiday such as the feast, the gifts and all the other self pleasured things that fake christians do.... its all pointing out to the image of the beast. They should be ashamed of themselves being self sentered and worldly as the catholics , i got to show this video to my sister... there already preparing for the feast ... i come from a large family, and most of the family are nazarene apostolic christians doing this big abomination celebrating the image of the beast. Im glad i left that religion that i was brought up in long time ago... and now i learn on youtube from good teachers, such as some seventh day adventists and this is actualy the first sermon i heard of a baptist so thanx teacher u did a good job standing up for rightousness sake... that what jesus is happy to see... being true of heart and faith towards him. May the father in heaven bless u.

I CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF MY SAVIOR

If you think that is wrong...I can live with that..eternally.

Are you on sermon audio?

this is why i stopped celebrating for many years..and it´s free..the truth can only do one thing and set you free..

Thank you so much for this great and truthful talk. So many people will not listen to this because they don't care anymore what our great God thinks. They don't care whether this information is right or wrong - people don't care anymore about right or wrong. They have become numb in their spirits. I know - because I am the ONLY ONE in my entire family who has decided to quite this paganism and follow the true God. You do become an outcast, and you are ostracized, and you are left very alone. I'm happy to be alone if necessary because I only want to please God - the true God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.

Any religion including the catholic church follow mans ways such as following man made pagan inspired holidays- christmas,easter and birthdays are not acknowledged or celebrated in the bible- The only tree mentioned with decorations in Jeremiah 10 is referred by God in verse 8
''But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion-- their idol is wood!'' Do you not see the church follows the ways of the world which are under satans influence in 1 John 5;19?

Christmas is not and never has been pagan. It's been observed by the church since the 2nd century. https://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/12/25/103638-the-nativity-of-our-lord-god-and-savior-jesus-christ

I quote the following from the above page from the Orthodox Church in America: (oca.org)

The present Feast, commemorating the Nativity in the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, was established by the Church. Its origin goes back to the time of the Apostles. In the Apostolic Constitutions (Section 3, 13) it says, “Brethren, observe the feastdays; and first of all the Birth of Christ, which you are to celebrate on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month.” In another place it also says, “Celebrate the day of the Nativity of Christ, on which unseen grace is given man by the birth of the Word of God from the Virgin Mary for the salvation of the world.”

and

In the second century Saint Clement of Alexandria also indicates that the day of the Nativity of Christ is December 25. In the third century Saint Hippolytus of Rome mentions the Feast of the Nativity of Christ, and appoints the Gospel readings for this day from the opening chapters of Saint Matthew.

and

During the first three centuries, in the Churches of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria and Cyprus, the Nativity of Christ was combined together with the Feast of His Baptism on January 6, and called “Theophany” (“Manifestation of God”). This was because of a belief that Christ was baptized on anniversary of His birth, which may be inferred from Saint John Chrysostom’s sermon on the Nativity of Christ: “it is not the day on which Christ was born which is called Theophany, but rather that day on which He was baptized.”

So I think I know where the truth lies. Merry Christmas!

Thanx pastor, After thinking about the coming holiday Thinking about the hustle and bustle and stress of the season, and going in debt, and compromising our home budget...I thought and said out loud, Where is my JESUS in all this? There is no way I could concentrate on both JESUS and ever thing that the celebration entails.. Thussly, this scripture comes to mind.. no one can serve two master's either they will cleave to one or despise the other. I then repented and sobbed and made a promise to GOD, JESUS I will not be celebrating while others are. i realize this is not your birthday which the Holy Bible never observed by the earlier church or even JESUS.. I will fast and pray and reflect on you.. and to show you I mean it and are commited to you.. As I glanced over at the landing above where we kept our artificial tree and orniments, I knew what i needed and had to do. I prayed that the LORD would help me get everything down and asked HIM if i could borrow one of HIS 17+ Angels and HE did! Then i dragged the tree and orniments to the burn pit I then explained to my husband about why and he agreed and we burned it all. I would Skype our daughter and her fiance and we would decorate our tree together. This togetherness I'll miss with them. i will stay commited to the LORD. thanx again.. This is how i'll explain why I be live as i do. Here is your sparkling, clear, clean, refreshing glass of water..oh by the way, I forgot the li'l piece of poo that i was to put in the glass., i'll just swirl this piece of poo, and mix it in the water but you won't know the difference it will mix in...Mixing pagan with CHRISTian celebrations, is a stench in GOD's nostrils! This practice angers GOD! This saddens GOD. I would love to find a church that. follows the TRUTH..JESUS is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE no man cometh unto the FATHER but by ME.. JESUS. The TRUTH shall set you free. I'm experiencing this freedom. if youd like you can go to paula hard Where did the people go tribute to the. 911 Trade Towers for encouragement and songs and GOD's Holy WORD kjv Bible on YouTube channel.

Hi Pastor Wagner, I'm so thankful that there's a Pastor preaching about the truth about this pagan holiday. I grew up as a Christian, and always celebrated Christmas and the rest of these Pagan holidays as a tradition, rather it be at a church or in my home, but now I know the truth, and it really disgusts me how Satan is seeping into the churches, and we're letting this into our churches. I sent an email to my Pastor about the truth about Christmas, it was another video exposing Christmas, but I I pray he receives it. Enough is enough, we are called to be separated from the world, and yet we still follow tradition. I pray the body of Christ finds the truth, because it seems they're blinded by the devils devices and being deceived. I pray that there spiritual eyes will be open to the truth.

All belief systems change thier stories to suit the present agenda.
Old testament
New testament
Religion means,to bind or hold back.

Thank you! We have decided this year to not observe the pagan holidays from now on and are very excited to follow the word of God!